New York Post Asks if Mayor de Blasio Will Rap With Violent Gangbangers

Is Bill de Blasio a full-blown socialist radical, a “liberal with some sanity” or has he finally “seen the light” in terms of proactive policing, charter schools, and the current administration’s controversial health initiatives?

A new New York Post quiz out today on the city’s new mayor-elect tries to settle that question.

“De Blasio opposes the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy. What would he do to keep New Yorkers safe?” readers are asked.

They are then given the choice to guess whether Mr. de Blasio will “Come to his senses and retain the policy that’s cut the murder rate to record lows”–yielding a positive score–or “Summon violent gangbangers to City Hall for a 60?s-style rap session followed by a chorus of ‘Kumbaya'”–rated negatively. (Also rated positively: Mr. de Blasio flip-flopping on his stated plan to drop the city’s appeal of a federal stop-and-frisk ruling.)

On and on the tongue-in-cheek questions go. Another wonders if Mr. de Blasio will “Surprise everyone and cut taxes across the board. WOOHOO!” or “Raise taxes across the board, socialist-style, because ‘progressives’ know better than the average Joe or Jane how their money should be managed.”

The final quiz question rates positively the chance Mr. de Blasio will regularly oversleep over the next four years. “The less time he spends on the job, the less damage he’ll do,” it argues.

The tabloid, which has been fairly critical of Mr. de Blasio’s candidacy, also ran a column today that downplays Mr. de Blasio’s win last night by arguing: “Sex sells beer and newspapers, but class warfare is going like hot cakes in Democratic politics.”

A de Blasio campaign spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment on whether the mayor-elect’s public-safety agenda includes summoning violent gangbangers to City Hall for 60s-style rap sessions.